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holy-cow

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Caller had an extremely simple job. ?ÿFour sides with the only adjoiner being a roadway owned in fee by the county. ?ÿPiece of cake.

For a combination of reasons the standard trip to the courthouse was skipped. ?ÿHad the online title info per the County Appraisers Office. ?ÿCalled the helpful GIS office at the courthouse to confirm the edge of the road tract was 50 feet off the section line. ?ÿCalled the DOT who purchased the road tract many decades ago. ?ÿThey didn't have the plans for the strip past my tract but confirmed the 50-foot figure as being shown for a stub headed towards my tract.

As we rolled up to the job site I noticed two very old DOT concrete r-o-w markers about five feet apart. %$@#&%^(*&^&

Made a side trip to the county records where many old highway plans are stored. ?ÿAn hour later we determined the plans for the stretch of former US highway were not present, which seemed to match the DOT files situation. ?ÿHeaded to the courthouse to search the deed records in person. ?ÿFound that in 1922 the DOT acquired a tract that was 50 feet wide at the west end of the half mile and 44.3 feet on the east end. ?ÿThen, in 1933, they acquired some additional land in the west 2011 feet of the half mile that would create the jump of roughly five feet where we saw the two concrete markers.

Three extra hours of research time saved my neck. ?ÿBUT, IF I HAD NOT SEEN THOSE TWO CONCRETE MARKERS..................................

Posted : April 7, 2018 1:28 pm

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'Caller had an extremely simple job.'

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Posted : April 7, 2018 4:02 pm

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"Caller had an extremely simple job. Four sides with the only adjoiner being a roadway owned in fee by the county. Piece of cake."

Only if I surveyed it "very" recently and nothing has been added or disturbed or torn down.

Some days it is not possible to trust the DOT monuments as they may not match the plans or the taking documents.

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Posted : April 7, 2018 4:40 pm

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Funny thing, I spend many hours at the local clerk and recorder and assessor's office and never run into other surveyors from the area. There is no online service for the clerk records only the assessor.

Posted : April 7, 2018 6:58 pm

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I thought one day I had it whipped when registered handed me a deed to a property we were surveying that called for 1" galvanized iron pipes at each of the four corners, wow! This has got to nail down the subject tract, and (in my best Will Farrell voice) There's no way a lawyer, or other ding-a-ling could have written this description, a 1" galvanized iron pipe ?! I mean, c'mon, No way!

The subject tract had everything but that. I found a 3/4"PTP buried in a tree root, an old 5/8"IR, some old pipe with a radiator hose and clamp still attached, the only galvanized IP found was a 1/2" sticking up out of the ground. The landowner also had a neat little pile of different size plumbing pipes stacked in his backyard (hmmm).

The adjoiners had 5/8"IRs with caps from reputable firms, concrete monuments, and 1"IRs. An older deed showed the old 5/8" with a tie to an old fence post, down the road, which still existed in part.

I seriously did some digging, but never found those 1" galvanized iron pipes. ?ÿ ? ?ÿ

Posted : April 8, 2018 9:28 am